Could Cognitive Scientists Eliminate ISIS?
Scott Adams Blog
Scott Adams, 9 Mar, 2017
Scary but potentially exciting developments. Scott writes a lot on persuasion and skill stacks and his twitter feed is "enlightening".
While he doesn't provide specific details or links or elaboration on "The science on how to do it is super strong now.", only that "It will be everywhere. And it is totally legal".
He does say that the critical factor is what in the software business is called A/B testing - rapidly test one approach after another to get the best one - only this time they do it on specific people.
Key takeaway:
"We used to call it “marketing” when it didn’t work that well. This new stuff is something else. It works so well it makes your ethical alarms go off."
Scary but potentially exciting developments. Scott writes a lot on persuasion and skill stacks and his twitter feed is "enlightening".
While he doesn't provide specific details or links or elaboration on "The science on how to do it is super strong now.", only that "It will be everywhere. And it is totally legal".
He does say that the critical factor is what in the software business is called A/B testing - rapidly test one approach after another to get the best one - only this time they do it on specific people.
Key takeaway:
"We used to call it “marketing” when it didn’t work that well. This new stuff is something else. It works so well it makes your ethical alarms go off."
In a word, yes, assuming they had lots of help from the CIA to deliver their persuasion.
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